Thoughts : Vacation is flying way too fast

It has been a month and a few weeks since I have been back from Turkey and it feels like the summer is flying faster than the other months. Can you believe it is already August? The year is more than half-way over and Christmas is just around the corner.

It is kind of ironic that American children are already going back to school whereas French children are in the middle of their vacation. While the French are bathing on the Riveria, the little Americans are learning math and biology. I kind of miss school, I miss the learning not the homework or paper-writing.

Speaking of paper-writing, I have been working on my thesis and presentation for my final school exam in September. I am hoping to show off my talents for the jury as a foreigner able to understand the French system and fingers-crossed  get my masters!,  my creativity on the layout and technique on the format of the paper and my enthusiasm when I present.

Also, this month, I am catching up on all of my work that I have been meaning to get done since I moved to this apartment. Like actually cleaning out the closets and do some spring/summer cleaning and also reading books that I have been dying to read all year, plus those that I need to read for school.

Have a great day!

Thoughts from the RER: Mistaken for Americans

I opened the RER doors on Monday and discovered 5 people wearing cowboy hats. I really truly thought they were Texans that were coming to Paris, until they started speaking French! It turned out that they were coming back from Texas and they found it hilarious each time someone opened the doors and saw a sea of cowboys. Obviously, everyone else thought like me, "what kind of American comes to France dressed as a cowboy?!"

Then yesterday, I was sitting on the train going back home. At each stop someone yelled the name of the spot. And I looked up and saw a sea of John Deere hats. First, I

thought they were Americains again, because they didn't look like real French. They were blond, so it kind of made sense.

But they were French coming back from the Salon d'Agriculture which is going on just until Sunday and they must have decided to buy out the whole John Deere store.

Do you have any stories about mistaken identity?